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The Welsh Ambulance Service is seeking to re-enlist military support to assist with its efforts to tackle the coronavirus pandemic.
The British Medical Association has written to Health Secretary Sajid Javid urging him to step in and tackle the wave of growing abuse against GPs.
Government reforms, set to hand ministers largely unchecked new powers over local health service decisions, risk undermining public confidence in the NHS.
The government has announced action to prevent medicines being prescribed unnecessarily, following a new review.
Leading clinicians have been appointed to new national clinical roles to help lead action on challenges facing patients and staff post-pandemic.
The Health and Social Care Secretary has announced an increase in users on the NHS App, including those registering an organ donation decision.
A new report from the CQC highlights continued concern about the variation in the quality and safety of England’s maternity services.
The Covid vaccination programme has started taking online and phone bookings from people invited for a booster jab.
Children struggling with mental health problems during the pandemic are facing ‘agonisingly’ long waits for treatment.
The NHS has started to roll out the coronavirus jab to school children aged 12 to 15, as part of the biggest vaccination drive in health service history.
The unprecedented impact of the pandemic will wipe out years of hard-won progress in mental health unless there is sustained investment.
Thousands of vulnerable NHS patients in hospital due to coronavirus are set to benefit from a ground-breaking new antibody treatment.
Sajid Javid has provided a blood sample for a genomic sequencing programme at Great Ormond Street Hospital aimed at tackling disparities in health.
More than 10,000 people have signed a petition calling for the government to properly fund general practice and source more desperately-needed GPs.
England’s top doctor is urging students who are not yet vaccinated to get their coronavirus jab in freshers’ week.
Reports suggest that the NHS may be forced to abandon major commitments it made as part of a deal to secure long term funding for the health service in 2018.
The RCN is demanding that ministers urgently address the nursing workforce crisis amid increasingly challenging conditions over the next few months.
NHS trusts are wrongly hounding vulnerable migrant women for payment of bills of thousands of pounds for maternity care.
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